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We invite you to join us in sending a letter to the Secretaries of State, Commerce and the Interior and the U.S. Trade Representative encouraging the administration to exert pressure on Japan to ban commercial whaling.

For far too long, Congress has kicked the can of fiscal sustainability down the road for the next generation to deal with. Today, the U.S. Treasury confirmed that the gross U.S. national debt topped $22 trillion for the first time in history. Meanwhile,
OMB recently announced that the White House will once again miss their statutory deadline for submitting a budget proposal to Congress no later than the first Monday in February. The time is now for us to act, and it starts with putting the federal government
on a balanced budget. That is why I encourage you to support my Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

I write to request your support for the Dental Care for Veterans Act, H.R. 96, which would expand eligibility for dental care to all veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system.

As co-chairs of the National Service Caucus, Representatives Price and Matsui invite you to attend a staff-only briefing with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to discuss the agency’s Transformation
and Sustainability Plan. Agency staff will be present to give an overview of CNCS, the T&S Plan, including the agency’s decision to move to regional offices, and will be able to answer any questions offices may have.

We invite you to join us in sending a bipartisan letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar opposing provisions of the Centers for Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed Medicare Part D rule for six categories of drugs (known
as “protected classes”) that would that would push life-saving drugs out of reach for patients in need, including for people living with HIV.

Students are no longer competing amongst themselves. Congress must tell young people we will invest in them through more skills training, high-quality K-12 education and access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.

I write to request your co-sponsorship of my bill the Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act (H.R.592), which will ensure that every veteran participating in VA’s Fiduciary Program can recover their benefits in cases of fiduciary misuse and fraud.